The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 59
The Sultan then mounted his horse and rode quickly back to the capital.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: mount, ride back · To what, where: horse, capital
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 mounted | advmod |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 9 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 capital | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 capital | det |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the Sultan | Sultan's horse | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | ride back | past | the Sultan not said here | the capital | quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to capital=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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